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Monday, October 22, 2012
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Rest in Peace - George Stanley McGovern - 1922-2012
I shook George McGovern’s hand the day before the election
in 1972. It would be the first time I
voted.
It was a strong hand shake from a great American.
A man, who dared to defy the corporations and their
corporate genocide war for profit in Vietnam,
and who challenged the corporate stooges in the White
House.
A distinguished veteran of WW-II, a pilot in the Army Air Corp.
A distinguished veteran of WW-II, a pilot in the Army Air Corp.
Rest in Peace – George Stanley McGovern.
1922-2012
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Governor Al Smith Drag Party at the Waldorf 2012 – Jumping the Shark - a Sacred Tradition
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| New York Governor Al Smith - 1873-1944 |
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
Best Food in Staten Island – “Blue” Restaurant – Snug Harbor
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| "Blue" Restaurant - North Shore - Staten Island |
Just had lunch the other day at
“Blue” on the North Shore opposite the Snug Harbor Museum campus.
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| Snug Harbor |
The old R.H.Tugs Restaurant
jumped the shark in the nineties but ownership hung on to celebrate a twenty
fifth year anniversary I guess for the sake of nostalgia and shabby chic?
This new restaurant with a basic
Mediterranean cuisine actually surprised me along with a major interior architectural
redo of the old basic structure. The Bar area is now doubled in size and more of a
lounge complete with a few lounge chairs.
The restaurant is refreshingly bright with almost floor to ceiling picture windows facing the river and giving you a breathtaking, up front in your face, view of that major
hidden forgotten asset in Staten Island, and that is of its long forgotten
water front.
The interior of the restaurant area is refreshingly simple. The walls are painted a Mediterranean color with Gothic Revival woodwork accents to match, compliment the hidden architectural gem of Snug Harbor across the street. This interior
background tells you that so much thought and preparation went into this place. That forethought and care is also found in its fantastically fresh, tasty and excellent food.
What I sampled was from the
Lunch Menu BTW. The pasta entre with clams and shrimp was the best I have eaten in a restaurant anywhere. Seafood, fresh,
fresh, fresh (you can taste the sea). I also
had a taste of my companions’ dishes. The Angus burger, exceptionally excellent. And a lunch time special
pastrami sandwich which was a quality, light tasting, not standard heavy, meat
sliced and served with a real sense of style and excellence across the board of a creative eclectic menu.
They have an impressive wine
list. Lunch for three with two appetizers, crab fritters - yum, three entrees, two cocktails, and
one desert, a key lime pie to die for, and coffees all around for desert was
for present day standards reasonable and under one bill. You pay for quality and believe me quality is far and some distance between in that forgotten (gem) of a borough. That quality is found here in Snug Harbor at "Blue".
Blue
1115
Richmond Terrace
Staten
Island NY 10310
718-273-7777
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Chubby Chaser Michael Sean Winters - National Catholic Reporter
"The best thing about the Detroit Tigers
is that they have some players who are downright chubby. In this neo-pagan,
health-worshipping, fitness-crazed culture, I love watching Prince Fielder
carry his substantial self to the plate and then boom a homerun." - Michael Sean Winters, October 19, NCR National Catholic Reporter
Friday, October 19, 2012
Was Sir Jimmy Savile Molested by a RC Priest when he was boy? - Catholic League’s obsession with “Secular Buggery” and the NYT
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| Sir Jimmy Savile |
Three articles already by
Catholic Media Troll Bill Donohue wanting to transport the current BBC scandal
about looking the other way regarding famous media icon Jimmy Savile and his
pedophilia and trying to make it stick to the New York Times because somebody once
said some nice PR things about him in his NYT obit?
Truth is that Jimmy Savile
probably learned his pedophilia habits from his local catholic priest and or
priests as a child in the UK? Child of devout Roman Catholics...
What is all the fuss and bother
about Bill?
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| Bill Donohue at Catholic League making Big Corporate Decisions |
The NYT covered up Cardinal Spellman’s
Gay old times with Broadway Chorus Boys for decades. Who or what is the implied sexual innuendo / blackmail(?) presently all about with the Catholic League trying to indict the New York Times?
BTW, I cannot seem to find a
Cardinal Spellman's New York Times Obit, NYT - the holy grail of American Obits, on the Internet? Hmm.
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| Franny "I never met a chorus boy I didn't like" Spellman |
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
Trolling for Dollars – Ann Coulter and other Media Whores / Skanks / Trolls / Catholic-Judenrats
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Fly Me to the Moon on your broom
Ann Coulter – Ten Bucks?
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I do not understand how a woman
in her fifties still is walking around in blithe sixteen year old style
blonde long, long hair. I do not understand why a woman who looks like the
first whore I did it with is still so popular after all these years. She was
older than me but not that old like Ann Coulter Bela Lugosi formaldehyde preserved old.
Perhaps anorexia is the true secret key to eternal life on this planet?
When I see her on Bill Maher, I understand
from the corporate world how blowjobs and supplying cocaine to the rich and
powerful in the front office can get a skank promoted and in a corner office
without any real work to do. But then, does she have an automatic groupie
following that puts Bill Maher’s ratings up five points, is that why she is on
his HBO Media Troll Show so much? Payola?
Do all the media trolls,
formerly media whores; do they all have the same agent at the William Morris
Agency? Like who books the dog acts on once legitimate theatre talk
entertainment Sunday news shows these days? Vladimir Putin?
This annoying switch in my brain
that is so visible is faulty and the “Matrix” like masters of the universe are
not like totally controlling me when I see the likes of Liz Cheney or Ann
Coulter or even Keith Olbermann booked on the George Stephanopoulos’ political
dog and pony show on Sunday Morning – This Week. They gave the Arab girl from CNN a few weeks
to turn around the ratings and then they pulled the old Jay Leno on the female
Conan when they 86’d Christiane Amanpour.
“See! (Mira!) Quality does not
work. What works is circus!” as Roger Ailes subtlety e-mails his Fox News staff
twenty times a day with.
I know I stopped watching George
Stephanopoulos or taking him seriously about anything when I read that the poor dear only gets $40,000 monthly living
allowance to rent a crumby apartment in New York City when they sent him to the
morning show to jazz, jizz it up Bill Clinton style.
What really turned my bile
green, not with envy but pure old fashioned moral disgust, was the picture and
the follow-up research that he was BFF with Catholic Media “Centrist”
Catholic-Judenrat Sean Michael Winters or is it Michael Sean Winters who is
official USCCB apologist for institutional endemic sodomy/pedophila and the new
far right fascist turn in the American Uber-Catholic Church.
Sieg Heil!
Whatever.
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Cute as a Bug and Expensive Media Troll Yes-Man George
Stephanopoulos
W/his BFF (wink,nod)
Catholic-media-Judenrat Sean Michael Winters* * * |
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Charles Krauthammer Debates Candy Crowley on Fox News and Naturally Loses - (Dipso-Facto)
First Up: Charles, your opening
statement.
Second: Miss, it is Miss right,
Crowley? Do you care to or dare to respond to Charle’s brilliant unprejudiced,
fair and unbalanced opening statement.
Fritz Kreisler and my Red Wool Scarf
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| Fritz Kreisler - Time Magazine - February 2, 1928 |
A
keepsake from my late aunt came to light in cleaning out an old closet today.
Alas the old Christian Dior winter coat (from my long gone glory days in banking, bought at Barney's NY with part of a real Christmas bonus) had succumbed to moth holes and is a
loss but there in the pocket was tucked away an old plain red wool scarf – no holes
thank God.
My
aunt had been an employee to the late Mrs. Fritz Kreisler as cook, part-time
housekeeper and companion in the Kreisler New York apartment.
After
Fritz Kreisler died, Aunt Mary brought us a bag of some men’s toiletries,
cologne bottle wrapped in a cork label (la dee da) etc. and this old red scarf that Mrs. Kreisler
said that my aunt could dispose of, and that the violin virtuoso had once used
in life. I guess I took the scarf out of that bag of hand me downs and
it has somehow stuck to me through the years.
Today
I found it again. Today I finally looked
up Kreisler’s bio on Wikipedia for the first time. I have memories of the fact that my parent’s
generation took for granted live radio performances of this violin player in the
golden days of radio. His name was a
household item in the day of live connected human entertainment.
No
canned music on the media back then. Some thought the idea of playing a record of a virtuoso in live prime
time radio as something obscene. There is a remark to that effect somewhere in
the movie “The King’s Speech” whereby the establishment thought a recorded
voice of the King giving a canned speech would somehow be considered
fraudulent. Well, the times do change. Whatever.
It
is no wonder why Hitler and his vision of the future failed. With a diaspora of
Jews like Einstein and Freud and not pure Aryan Christianized artists like
Kreisler, it reminds me of the present already failed vision of the German pope
who now wants to caste out all intellectuals, feminists and gays from the RC
church in the next to fail European vision thingy. Oh well.
Enjoy
the art. Forget the politics.
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